DuQUOIN, ILL (Sept. 4, 2006) - In arecord setting and historic dat at the
DuQuoin State Fair Robinson, Illinois' Brian Shaw became the first three time
winner of the United Midwestern Promoters Bill Oldani Memorial Modified race
when he crossed the finish line ahead of Chatham's Brian Shirley on the "Magic
Mile" Labor Day while NASCAR star Ken Schrader broke a 27 year winless streak at
DuQuoin in a big way.

Shaw started his WTHI TV 10-Robinson Bowling Centers Pierce modified in the
third slot by virtue of a heat race win on Sunday night and quickly moved to the
second position. He passed leader Brian Shirley on the third circuit of the 20
lap affair and was never headed as the modified feature saw no caution flags
over the entire distance, allowing Shaw to set a new track record for 20 miles
of eleven minutes, fourteen and one hundredth seconds, an average speed of
106.823 miles a hour. Shaw's run broke Kevin Gundaker's seven year old standard
for the Oldani Memorial.

Shirley finished second, while defending Oldani winner Jeff Parks of Marion
finished third. They were followed to the stripe by Matt Simpson and Curt
Rhodes.

NASCAR veteran Ken Schrader of Fenton, Missouri realized a 27 year quest for a
main event victory on the DuQuoin State Fair dirt mile as he led wire to wire in
the Crate American Racing Series Late Model main that was postponed by rain from
August 27. Not only did Schrader win the C.A.R.S. event but he backed that up
with a win in the Federated Car Care-Southern Illinois 100 ARCA race in the same
afternoon.

Schrader set quick time on August 27 and won his heat race before Mother Nature
stopped the program postponing the C.A.R.S. feature until Labor Day. Schrader
jumped from the pole on Labor Day and was never headed, though he was pressured
several times early on by fried and Tri City Speedway owner Kevin Gundaker in
the Dagg 52. Schrader's Red Baron Pizza machine crossed the finish line first,
followed by Gundaker, Centralia's Joe Cooksey, DuQuoin's Ray Emling Jr. and
Benton's Shane Cockrum. One caution period allowed Schrader to set a 20 mile
track record for the C.A.R.S. series in the process of 86 miles an hour.

Schrader made his USAC Stock Car debut at DuQuoin in 1979 and it remained the
lone dirt mile in the Midwest on which Schrader had yet to post a win. He had
won at Springfield in three different race cars, and on the Indiana State Fair
mile in four different cars but a win on the mile closest to his home had eluded
him. When Schrader won the C.A.R.S. event he became just the twenty-fourth
driver since 1946 to post main event wins on all three of the state fair dirt
miles in the Midwest. By winning the ARCA race later Schrader became the first
driver in thirty four years to win two races on the DuQuoin State Fair "Magic
Mile" in the same day, the last Tom Bigelow in 1972 when he won twin 50 USAC
Midget races.